EHS Specialist

AMPI owns six Midwest-based manufacturing plants where 10 percent of the nation's American-type cheese and processed cheese is produced. The cooperative's award-winning cheese and powdered dairy products are marketed to foodservice, retail, and food ingredient customers. In 2019, the co-op launched its Dinner Bell Creamery brand and accompanying Co-op Crafted promise, highlighting more than 50 years of dairy farm families partnering with skilled cheesemakers.

Responsibilities

• Report employee safety, food safety, and food quality issues to personnel of authority.
• Maintain heightened food safety and food quality responsibilities.
• Directly support Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) at the facility by training and enforcing safety programs and policies.
• Administer continuous training programs that comply with OSHA regulations and develop safe work behaviors.
• Manage industrial hygiene programs, including medical testing, physicals, respiratory testing, fit testing, and monitoring of contaminants as required by respective standards.
• Oversee hazardous and non-hazardous waste inspections, identification, containerization, consolidation, labeling, accumulation, and shipment for disposal; maintain records of such activities.
• Collect, document, and record site EHS monitoring, including area noise measurements, carbon monoxide, heat exposure, and storm water samples.
• Apply the Company drug and alcohol testing program in compliance with federal and state laws.
• Schedule and conduct site EHS compliance inspections, perform records documentation, and provide corrective action response recommendations and tracking.
• Use working knowledge of personal, industrial, and occupational safety to manage safety programs such as Life Safety Code, Forklift Operations, Hoist & Crane Operations, Lifting Equipment, Job Safety Analysis, Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control, Respiratory Protection, PPE Program, Hazard Communication, and other OSHA-required programs.
• Promote technical safety and occupational health awareness through internal company communications, such as newsletters, committee meetings, 5-minute safety talks, best practices, and specific training programs.
• Support maintenance, plant services, and quality assurance to implement engineering controls and food safety while minimizing employee exposure.